This undated image made available by Teva Women's Health shows the packaging for their Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) tablet, one of the brands known as the "morning-after pill." In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable" and must end within 30 days. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York means consumers of any age could buy emergency contraception without a prescription _ instead of women first having to prove they're 17 or older, as they do today. And it could allow Plan B One-Step to move out from behind pharmacy counters to the store counters. (AP Photo/Teva Women's Health)

Regarding "Our culture is chiseling away at kids' innocence" (Page B8, Sunday), Kathleen Parker correctly notes that our sex-soaked culture promoting pleasure for all is at odds with the physical and psychological welfare of young women.

What she fails to note is that at least two generations of parents simply are not willing to give up their own addictions to stimulation of varying types to tend to the healthy development of their own children.

Teens and preteens come home to see revered Dr. Oz explain in graphic detail the "health essential" of sexual satisfaction, X-rated TV, movies and Internet porn. Nothing at all is more important than sexual satisfaction, or so the very big business catering to it - from Big Pharma to Hollywood to the fashion, food and drink industries - would have us believe.

Sexy - the word describes and defines everything that matters to people who have traded common sense and their children's innocence for the sake of "fun." Plan B? That's the least of the problem.

Regarding "Two Houston neighborhoods called most dangerous in U.S." (Chron.com, April 30), I was shocked to read that my neighborhood, Sunnyside, was named the sixth most dangerous neighborhood in the country by Money Magazine.

When you think of the most dangerous neighborhoods, places like Chicago, South-Central Los Angeles, Southeast Washington, D.C., or West Baltimore come to mind, not Sunnyside.

My constituents have had a wide range of reactions to the article. Some were angry, but most people were simply puzzled. I'm not puzzled.

Houston police officers that I spoke to agreed that Sunnyside did not deserve this ranking.

When you walk around Sunnyside, there are local knuckleheads that you want to be leery of, but there is not the relentless violence that occurs in the country's worst neighborhoods.

I believe that there are interests who would like to see the property values of Sunnyside driven down so that the neighborhood can be gentrified cheaply. I have argued for years that because of Sunnyside's proximity to downtown and the Medical Center, it is a diamond in the rough and developers have recognized the same thing.

The No. 15 neighborhood on the list, near Dowling and McGowen, is already beginning to gentrify with new developments featuring downtown views.

The reality is that Sunnyside has always been a vibrant, family-oriented neighborhood. If you drive around Sunnyside, you would see some old homes, some abandoned homes, but you will also see new home construction.

Sunnyside has a long and proud history of independence, and I believe it has a bright future. I will not allow the hardworking, independent people of Sunnyside or their community leaders to be hoodwinked or bamboozled under my watch.